canoodled

Verb

canoodle (third-person singular simple present canoodles, present participle canoodling, simple past and past participle canoodled)

1. (slang, transitive) To caress, fondle, or pet (someone); also, to have sexual intercourse with (someone); to make love with.
   • He’s got a big smile on his face—who’s he been canoodling recently?

   Synonyms:

   feel up, grope, touch up, caress, chuckle, coax, cosset, dally, dandle, dawt

2. (figuratively, slang, transitive) To cajole or persuade (someone).
   • “There,” she cried triumphantly, when her labours were finished, “it [the drawing-room] looks different now, really quite effective and ‘canoodling’.”[1877, Anna C. Steele, chapter XXI, in Condoned. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 243

   Synonyms:

   coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle, blandander, blandish, butter up, cajole, sweeten, fast-talk

3. (intransitive, slang) Of a person: to caress, fondle, or pet another person; of two people: to caress, fondle, or pet each other; also, to have sexual intercourse; to make love.
   • Young Robin and my daughter. / ‘Canoodling’ too. This must lead to manslaughter.[1874], Charles Millward, The Grand Annual Comic Christmas Pantomime Entitled, Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross: […], Birmingham: […] Theatre Royal Printing Works, →OCLC, scene iii, page 9

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